The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

He who matures early lives in anticipation.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.